Women hold candles during a silent protest to commemorate a Polish woman who died in Poland on May 24 and to protest against Poland's restrictive abortion law in Berlin, Germany, June 13, 2023
POLAND: Women’s rights advocates protested across the country this evening after a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of Poland’s abortion law.
Dorota Lalik, 33, arrived at a hospital after her waters broke. She was told to lie with her legs up, as the medics hoped her fluids would be reconstituted. She developed sepsis and died three days later on May 24.
Women only have the right to abortion in cases of rape, incest or a threat to their life or health.
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